<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Hello Blender Team,</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">I'm new here so I don't know your rules. However, I wanted to give you input. Please help me on that. I just tried Blender for the first time and as a professional User Interface Designer, I would like to advice you guys on the Dope Sheet's UI.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here goes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">The Dope Sheet window is a very nice way to get an overview of the animation. However, editing, in its current 2.76 version, is really cumbersome.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Mouse's paradigm usually involve that clicking an item selects it and clicking an empty space around it deselects the item. Selecting multiple items is usually done by click-dragging the mouse around the desired items or shift-clicking / shift click-dragging over individual items. Moving items is done by click-dragging the selected item. Duplicating is done by holding Alt while click-dragging selected items.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">However, the Dope Sheet respects -none- of those principle, making it almost impossible to immediately understand until the user try hard to grasp the unusual concept. Thus, by definition, the Dope Sheet window isn't "user-friendly".</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Would it be possible to apply those basic concepts to the Dope Sheet window? This would greatly help newcomers stick to Blender.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Let me know if you have questions.</p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Thank you very much,</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web Regular', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class="">Philippe Côté</div></body></html>